Published August 12, 2011
Love is a butterfly.
It alights upon my knee,
Twitching its wings,
Looking up at me.
But it won't stay for long,
I know.
Even love has to go.
The butterflies, they slowly crawl
On their quest
To find the heart beating
Within my chest.
Not all make it -
Some will fly.
Even love has to die.
Friends blink vibrant yellow,
Lovers blush crimson red,
But some choose
To fade instead.
Some I cannot keep
Forever.
Others leave altogether.
In the end,
It's all the same.
Love is a butterfly,
And love is a game.
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Sweet! This was a delightful thing to read, it created a vivid picture of love and I like the symbolism with the butterflies. They are, like love can be, beautiful to watch and see but they're so hard to catch and keep! The flow of this piece was pretty good, like the rythm... eh, punctuation! That's good, both thumbs up! Somehow... this poem was quite sad and should be depressing to read as love seems so impossible to gain but it didn't give me that feeling, can't say if this was good or bad but overall I just thought this was cute, beautiful and well-written!
3½/5 icky spiders to you!
Good Luck & Keep Writing
// Demoness
"Even love has to go...Even love has to die...Others leave altogether...And love is a game." I like the topic of your poem. I thought it's something like an inspirational theme (as the love-theme always are) because of your title. But it turned out to be something dark inside only if you didn't use butterflies. When you said "Love is a butterfly", I told myself "Oh common." But no! I was wrong. Thumbs up! Keep writing
A really good poem, cute and sad at the same time
. It makes me smile. Love is beautiful thing but yeah it has to go away sometime, no matter how strong.... That's the tragedy of it. "Even love has to die" I love this line. Keep up the good work and best of luck 
Your poem is beautiful!
I love how in the end you say love has to die.
Bringing the colors to the poem and then saying they fade is amazing!
I love it all together!
Keep it Up!
--Taylor
HI!!
Well, that was a very nice piece of work!! i like it very much. It creates a picture of the beautiful love, it's effects and how it is. And also tells us about how love will go away in everyone's life, It was very good. keep it up!!